[Oe List ...] The project

[W. J.]

I'd put the SK quote in the context of 'willing one thing' or chastity. That would be single-mindedness.
Marshall



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From: "KarenBueno at aol.com" <KarenBueno at aol.com>
To: oe at wedgeblade.net
Sent: Fri, November 20, 2009 1:00:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Oe List ....] The project

In a message dated 11/20/2009 1:29:49 PM Mountain Standard Time, rcwmbw at yahoo.com writes:




>>Karen,
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>>I'm not sure exactly what SK meant, but it brings to mind a quote by Martin Buber: "Listen to what is emerging in the course of being in the world--not to be supported by it, but to participate in having it emerge as it wants to emerge." 
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>>The part I underlined sounds similar.  Or as a friend of mine likes to say (and he may be quoting someone else), "You can do almost anything if you don't care who gets the credit."  So maybe Kierkegaard is saying something like, do what needs to be done, but if you're concerned about whether or not you will get the credit, you have a conflict of interest.
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>>What do you think it means?
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>>Randy
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>>--- On Fri, 11/20/09, KarenBueno at aol.com <KarenBueno at aol.com> wrote:
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>>>>From: KarenBueno at aol.com <KarenBueno at aol.com>
>>>>Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] The project
>>>>To: oe at wedgeblade.net
>>>>Date: Friday, November 20, 2009, 1:09 PM
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>>>>In a message dated 11/20/2009 9:26:40 AM Mountain Standard Time, pvida at whc.net writes:
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>>“To will the good, and that the good be done through you, is double-mindedness” – Kierkegaard
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>>>>Please say some more about this Kierkegaard quote.  I don't understand it.
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>>>>Thanks, Karen Bueno
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Thanks, Randy.  That helps.

Karen 
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